Snapchat Announces New Deal with Sony Music to Expand Sound Options in the App

Snap continues to expand its audio options, in line with broader social media usage trends.

Facebook Expands Nextdoor-Like ‘Neighborhoods’ as Part of Broader Giving Tuesday Push

Facebook’s expanding its ‘Neigborhoods’ community connection platform to 132 US cities.

YouTube Outlines Plans to Bring Live-Stream Shopping to All Users

YouTube’s looking to take its live-stream shopping tools to the next level, with its upcoming holiday streams a testing ground for the next stage.

The XR Week Peek (2021.11.15): Vive Focus 3 aims at LBEVR market, Niantic and Qualcomm launch AR SDKs, and more!

Hello everyone from Palo Alto, California! I’m still here in the US for some days after having attended AWE, planning

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Oculus Quest, PSVR & PC VR MMO Zenith Reveals Cooking Mechanics In New Video

Here’s our first look at cooking mechanics in upcoming VR MMO, Zenith.

AWE 2021: Hands-on Lynx-R1 mixed reality headset

At AWE 2021 I have finally been able to try the Lynx-R1 headset and meet its creator Stan Larroque. Lynx-R1

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Watch: 7 Minutes Of Warhammer Tempestfall PC VR Gameplay Debuts

Here’s 7 minutes of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall gameplay ahead of next week’s PC VR launch.

Iceland Tourism Video Mocks Meta’s Connect Keynote With ‘The Icelandverse’

Are you ready to enter the Icelandverse?

Iceland mocks Meta’s Connect keynote with this hilarious video.

DecaGear To ‘Pivot’, Warning Of $700 Viable Price & Late 2022 Shipping

The startup behind DecaGear announced a “pivot”, cautioning its headset would cost $700 and admitting preorders won’t be fulfilled until Q4 2022.

Specific details of the new strategy will be revealed next week.

Hands-on: Varjo’s Unique Masking Tool Lets You Bring the Real World into VR

Varjo’s XR-3 headset has perhaps the best passthrough view of any MR headset on the market thanks to color cameras that offer a fairly high resolution and a wide field-of-view. But rather than just using the passthrough view for AR (bringing virtual objects into the real world) Varjo has developed a new tool to do […]

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ENGAGE XR Selected for ‘World-First’ VR School

ENGAGE XR announced on Friday it had struck a massive deal with classical curriculum development firm Optima Domi to provide solutions for a world-first virtual reality (VR) charter school in Florida. The facility will open classes in Autumn 2022 and plans to host up to 1,500 teachers and scholars for grades 3 to 8, with […]

Integrating Meta Quest into Enterprise Workflows

Oculus parent company Meta is the market leader in virtual reality (VR) solutions due partly to the massively-popular Quest lineup of standalone headsets. Meta shook up the VR landscape after it acquired Oculus in 2016 and once again by rebranding itself as ‘Meta’ in late October this year. The change reflects the firm’s new vision […]

Holo-Light Debuts XRnow Service at AWE 2021

German tech firm Holo-Light revealed its latest immersive Streaming-as-a-Service platform for visualising augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications at the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, California this week. Holo-Light’s ‘XRnow’ solution will allow mobile XR devices to use cloud-based streaming for rapid processing and on-demand global access for VR/AR immersive experiences. The new platform […]

T-Mobile, Qualcomm Build Snapdragon Content Ecosystem

US manufacturer of chipsets and wireless communications technology Qualcomm announced a partnership with telecoms firm T-Mobile to launch the “Snapdragon Spaces extended reality (XR) Developer Platform,” a software development kit (SDK) to support augmented reality (AR) content creation for Qualcomm hardware. The openXR SDK gives AR developers the freedom to accelerate and refine the production […]

TikTok Adds Disney Character Voices to its Text-to-Speech Feature

The announcement comes a day after Instagram added text to speech to Reels.

TikTok Launches New Digital Magazine to Highlight Effective Marketing Approaches in the App

The 8-page overview includes a range of case studies, insights and tips.

Facebook Adds Shops in Groups, New Product Recommendation and Display Options Tied to Group Engagement

The option will provide new ways to display product listings to Facebook users aligned with dedicated interests.

Twitter’s Coming NFT Profile Images will be Displayed in a Different Shape to Signify Ownership

The alternative display shape will make it harder for people to use NFTs that they don’t own on the platform.

HTC Vive Focus 3 Updates: Larger Play Space, Co-Location Mode, Wi-Fi 6E Coming Soon

HTC’s Vive Focus 3 is getting some major updates: support for a much larger play area, a multi-headset colocation mode, and soon 6 GHz Wi-Fi 6E.

Standalone colocation significantly reduces the cost of location based VR.

Tea For God Is Coming To SteamVR In 2022

Impressive impossible spaces-based shooter, Tea For God, will arrive on SteamVR in 2022.

Watch: Against Hits PC VR This Winter, Closed Beta Sign-Ups Launch

Brutally stylish rhythm combat game, Against, is coming to PC VR this winter.

New trailer and info on closed beta sign-ups right here!

Blade And Sorcery PC Update Adds Improved Stealth, Quest Incoming

A new update to the PC VR version of Blade And Sorcery improves the stealth features in the game’s Dungeon mode.

AWE 2021: Hands-on with Holoride and its automotive VR fun

Yesterday was my last day at AWE. One of the coolest things that I’ve tried has been Holoride, a system

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How to Use Sales Demos to Strengthen Your Online Reputation

  Digitalization has had a huge impact on everyone’s life. In most aspects it has influenced businesses in a good way: They can now go global, discover new marketing channels and broaden their customer base. But there’s one negative to being online as well: Fragile reputation. In the world when anyone can complain about any […]

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Watch 7 Minutes of ‘Warhammer: Tempestfall’ Gameplay Ahead of PC VR Launch Next Week

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall, Carbon Studio’s upcoming action-adventure game, just got an extended gameplay video to show off some of its combat, puzzles, and rich environments before its November 17th release on PC VR headsets. Carbon Studio says the video is taken from early in Tempestfall’s campaign, giving you a look at the realm of […]

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